新一届全国人大第一次会议批准了国务院机构调整改革的方案,其中合并原国家计委、经贸委、外经贸部和国务院体改办,另组国家发展改革委员会、国有资产监督管理委员会和商务部的决定倍受世人瞩目。因为这项改革标志着国家的经济管理将彻底结束计划审批权的时代,开始全面的依法行政,也标志着政府经济管理职能适应市场经济环境的一次根本性转变。政府机构调整,根据过去的经验,增设机构的工作一般比较好做,因为没有精简人员的负担,又能增加一块财政预算开支。合并机构的工作就困难得多,因为既要精简人员,又要缩减国家财政负担。现在四家机构合并到国家发展和改革委员会(简称发改委),为了减轻工作压力,中央没有立即下达精简人员的 The first session of the new NPC approved the program of the State Council institutions to readjust the reform, including the merger of the former State Development Planning Commission, the Economic and Trade Commission, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and the State Council’s Office for Restructuring the Organization, the NDRC’s State Development and Reform Commission, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission and MOFCOM’s decision has drawn much attention from the world. Because this reform marks the era when the state’s economic management will completely end the right of examination and approval and start a comprehensive administration according to law, it also marks a fundamental change in the government’s economic management functions to adapt to the market economic environment. According to the experience of the past, the work of building additional agencies is generally better. As there is no burden for streamlining staff, they can also increase the expenditure on a budget. The work of amalgamating agencies is much more difficult because it requires both streamlining staffing and reducing the national financial burden. Now four institutions merged into the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), in order to reduce the pressure of work, the Central did not immediately release streamlined staff